1 Season
11 Episode
Brideshead Revisited - Season 1 Episode 5 A Blow Upon a Bruise
I should like to bury something precious every place where I’ve been happy...
Charles comes home from Paris to spend New Year 1925 at Brideshead, but Sebastian behaves disgracefully. The Marchmains are trying to stop Sebastian from drinking by keeping him penniless, and Charles incurs their anger by giving him money.
- Year: 1981
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: ITV1
- Keyword: paris, france, venice, italy, england, world war ii, fountain, artist, british empire, friendship, love, romance, religious conversion, gay interest, miniseries, in the closet, mistress, university, love affair, period drama, alcohol abuse, alcoholic, expatriate, domineering mother, labor strike, catholicism, husband wife estrangement, marital separation, catholic guilt, englishman abroad, oxford university, 1920s, 1940s, aristocracy, ancestral home, 1930s, alcoholic son, aristocrats, social scandal, society party, closeted homosexual, family friend, british painter, lgbt interest, general strike
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- Cast: Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick, Claire Bloom, Phoebe Nicholls, Simon Jones